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Clyde Fastlink is a high frequency bus rapid transit system in Glasgow, Scotland.The system was designed to provide greater connectivity and faster journey times between Glasgow City Centre and the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Govan, as well as to several other key developments along the north and south banks of the Clyde Waterfront.
This is a list of the past, present, planned or abandoned guided bus systems or bus rapid transit schemes in the United Kingdom, including segregated busways.Not included are bus priority schemes, bus lanes or local authority bus company quality contracts that do not involve guidance, significant segregation from the public highway or other bus rapid transit features.
Tracline 65 was a bus route in Birmingham, England which included the first guided busway in the United Kingdom. The existing route 65 bus route was upgraded as part of an experiment to improve bus services, by the West Midlands Passenger Transport Executive .
[4] [5] The newly privatised Busways made their first acquisition of a competing bus operator on 17 November 1989, purchasing the Tyne & Wear Omnibus Company, which had then recently been engaged in a bus war with Busways, from Go-Ahead Northern for £2 million (equivalent to £6,285,000 in 2023).
West Midlands Bus route 11, also known as the Birmingham Outer Circle, is a 27-mile (43 km) route that circumnavigates Birmingham via the A4040 apart from a small deviation via the B4182 and A4030 in Bearwood. It is operated by National Express West Midlands. It operated in both clockwise and anti-clockwise directions as routes 11C and 11A ...
Fares have remained the same with Super Singles available on the routes as they were whilst under standard Citylink branding. The Citylink Gold services are as follows: [26] G9 Glasgow – Aberdeen; G10 Glasgow – Aviemore – Inverness; G90 Edinburgh – Perth – Pitlochry – Aviemore – Inverness; G92 Edinburgh – Halbeath – Dundee ...
A Mercedes-Benz O305 bus on the O-Bahn Busway route in Adelaide, Australia. Guided buses are buses capable of being steered by external means, usually on a dedicated track or roll way that excludes other traffic, permitting the maintenance of schedules even during rush hours.
In March 2008, Go West Midlands was sold to Rotala, who also owned Central Connect and North Birmingham Busways. [4] [5] Rotala originally kept the Diamond business separate from Central Connect and Ludlows (purchased later [6]), instead switching a number of routes between the three operators. From November 2011, Central Connect was re-branded ...